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What is administration?

Administrative management refers to the social activities that all social organizations and groups manage, manage and implement related affairs.

Administrative management is a management activity that uses state power to manage social affairs. It can also refer to the administrative affairs management of all enterprises and institutions. The administrative management system is an organizational system. It is an important subsystem of social system. Administrative organization is the main body of administrative activities and the material undertaker of administrative activities. All activities in the administrative process are carried out on the basis of administrative organization.

With the development of society, the objects of administrative management are increasingly extensive, including economic construction, cultural education, municipal construction, social order, public health and environmental protection. Modern administrative management uses the ideas and methods of system engineering to reduce the expenditure and waste of manpower, material resources, financial resources and time, and improve the effect and efficiency of administrative management.

Characteristics of administrative management

1. All administrative activities are directly or indirectly related to and based on state power.

2. Administration is an organizational activity to handle government affairs according to national laws. In the process of implementation, it also actively participates in and influences national legislation and political decision-making, and making policies is an important way of administrative management.

3. Administration not only manages social public affairs, but also performs the political function of class rule.

4, administrative management should pay attention to the effectiveness and efficiency of management. Through planning, organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating, supervising and reforming, it optimizes and realizes the scheduled national tasks and achieves the due social effects.

5. Administration is a specific field of human practical activities to transform society, which has its own objective development law.

6. Administration is an essential working ability in work and a compulsory course of business administration.